4.In a H 3PO 4 medium and in the presence of mixed surfactants OP+ CTMAB , gold(Ⅲ) reacts with the new reagent to form an orange 1∶5 complex, having its absorption maxima at 480nm with a mloar absorptivity of 2.0×10 6L·mol -1 ·cm -1 . Beer′s law is obeyed for gold(Ⅲ) in the range of 0~1 2μg/25ml.